Thai health technology assessment guideline development.
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-41825
ABSTRACT
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a comprehensive form of policy research that provides information on the consequences of the application of health technology. It is used primarily to guide health care resource allocation decisions. In Thailand, there is increasing impetus to use HTA information to allow more explicit and transparent health care priority setting. A previous study indicated that serious attention needed to be given to the quality of reporting and the use of information in the analyses. These problems could be reduced by setting up standard guidelines for conducting HTA to stimulate the provision of standardized, reliable and good quality information for policy makers. Nevertheless, Thailand has not yet set up such guidelines. This may lead to low quality evaluations. Therefore, the objective of this article was to describe the rationale for guideline development, supporting principles, guideline development process, sources of information, and future challenges for HTA.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Technology Assessment, Biomedical
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Thailand
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Humans
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Benchmarking
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Decision Making
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Resource Allocation
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Health Policy
Type of study:
Practice guideline
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Health technology assessment
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Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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